The Martyr Made Podcast

Hi everybody. So, many of you will have already heard a version of this episode (called The Administration of Savagery, released about a year or two ago), but this version is updated with new information and cleaned up a bit. I thought it was worth re-upping due to the current crisis in Gaza.To those of you who are non-paying subscribers to the MartyrMade Substack, please consider supporting the podcast by becoming a paid subscriber for just $5 p/month or $50 p/year. The show is 100% listener-supported, so your generosity is the only way I’m able to keep doing this. Thanks. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit subscribe.martyrmade.com/subscribe

Hi everyone. My good friend Daniele Bolelli and I recorded this when I visited a week or so before the crisis erupted in Gaza. We start off talking about paleolithic man, the invention of grandparents, tribalism and community… and then I bust out my hammer and sickle and start complaining about capitalism. Hopefully, you need a break from the news out of the Middle East as much as I do. Enjoy.If you don’t know, Daniele is the host of a top 3 history podcast, History on Fire. He and I have collaborated on episodes in the past - the short episode I did about the Japanese Red Army was part of an anthology he put out, and my My Lai episode was a two-parter with his episode on the massacre at Sand Creek. Anyway, I love DB, and you will too. Check out his Substack. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit subscribe.martyrmade.com/subscribe

Hey everyone. A few days ago, I posted a Twitter thread to explain a comment I had made on the topic of immigration. Essentially, I said that I thought we’d passed the threshold where any meaningful reform was really possible at the federal level, and that people would be better off focusing their political efforts on states and localities that are winnable and defensible. The thread drew the ire of immigration hawks on right-wing Twitter, and so I thought I’d bring in a few interesting guys with different perspectives to discuss it.My guests today are Lafayette Lee (Twitter handle @partisan_O, his Substack is ruins.substack.com), Dr. Ben Braddock (Twitter handle @graduatedben, his Substack is benjaminbraddock.substack.com), and Indian Bronson (Twitter handle @lndian_Bronson, his Substack is indianbronson.substack.com). Lee and Dr. Ben are both editors at IM-1776, a dissident publication I follow with interest, and Bronson is the founder of Keeper, a dating app focused on creating new families, not just new hookups.While I am still skeptical of the possibility of large-scale radical immigration reform at the federal level, the conversation left me feeling much better than I did going in, because it helps just to know there are intelligent people like these three thinking through these issues.Thanks for listening. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit subscribe.martyrmade.com/subscribe

I’m spending most of my time working on two bigger projects, so I thought I would read you a little story tonight. In fact, if you guys like this, I might make Sunday Night Story Time a new tradition here at the Substack.All the readings are from Bryan Burrough’s great book, Days of Rage. Some of it you’ll be familiar with from God’s Socialist, but since this story takes part during the Lindsay administration shortly after the 1968 New York City teachers’ strikes, this will provide some more depth on what was going down at the time. Many of the neighborhoods mentioned also came up in the Blacks & Jews series, including Brownsville (in Brooklyn), where the school that sparked the teachers’ strikes was located, and where Norman Podhoretz had grown up back when it had been a mixed area.Thanks for listening. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit subscribe.martyrmade.com/subscribe

Thought I’d go ahead and stick these together for anyone who wanted to listen to them all at once.*Correction* A few people have informed me that my description of how a hedge fund manager calculates his cut is off in Episode 1. I meant to correct it in the show, but forgot. The general point remains, however: there is no way Jeffrey Epstein made the kind of money he was showing by managing one guy’s accounts over the years. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit subscribe.martyrmade.com/subscribe

I would like to continue releasing most of this content for free, so if you enjoy it and can spare a few bucks, please consider becoming a paid subscriber for just $5 p/month or $50 p/year. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit subscribe.martyrmade.com/subscribe

Hi everybody. Here’s another installment of my ongoing long-term project exploring ideas from James Poulos’s great 2021 book, Human Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War.I decided to put this episode out for everyone, because I really want everyone to hear what James has to say. He has a unique and valuable perspective on implications of digital technology, and how we can win the war to remain human as those technologies take over our world.If you are not already a Substack paid subscriber, please consider signing up. It’s just $5 per month or $50 per year, and it’s how I put food on the table and kibble in the kitty bowl. Behind the paywall, you’ll find more discussions like this one, and last week’s discussion with former UFC heavyweight champion Josh Barnett, as well as episodes with just me discussing questions and issues that don’t quite make it into the history show.James Poulos is the editor of American Mind at the Claremont Institute, as well as the Founder and Editorial Director of RETURN at New Founding.Please check out his book. It is only available on the blockchain, a decision we discuss in the episode, but if crypto is a barrier for you, it’s time to climb over it. It was certainly a barrier for me, but one way or another, whether we like it or not, it’s a technology with which we’re all going to need a basic familiarity in the trials ahead.The book is available on the blockchain at Canonic. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit subscribe.martyrmade.com/subscribe

Hi everybody. I had another episode ready for Easter, but at the last minute the person I did it with decided he did a bad job and asked me not to publish. He’s wrong, he did a great job, but I get it, I know the feeling. So I decided to just jot down a few thoughts and here they are. Happy Easter. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit subscribe.martyrmade.com/subscribe